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Book Review


Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846–1862. By Judith Kelleher Schafer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xxvi, 204 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2862-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2880-5.)
In Becoming Free, Remaining Free, Judith Kelleher Schafer, using previously unmined district court case records, offers readers a fresh look at the legal contours of freedom and slavery. Through a slew of case studies, Schafer illuminates the various legal routes from slavery to freedom for African Americans in antebellum New Orleans. The work reveals the process by which slaves, without legal personhood, were able to use the courts to sue their owners. Schafer's research expands our notion of the social and legal space that slaves in the urban South inhabited. . . .
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